Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Endocrine Function. Levels of testosterone, the male sex hormone, have been reported to drop with long-term pot intake. While the levels remained within normal range, the drop might reduce potency and fertility...
...graduate of Columbia University's Russian Institute and a former State Department correspondent for TIME, Nelan is an expert on Soviet affairs who knows how slowly and carefully the Kremlin's bureaucracy usually moves. But Nelan's latest assignment demonstrated how swiftly that same bureaucracy can function when the word is passed by its highest echelons. Within hours after permission for the interview was suddenly granted, visas were ready at the Soviet embassy in Washington for Corporate Editor Henry Grunwald and Managing Editor Ray Cave. Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan received his summons to Moscow while...
Though the two states have been closely scrutinizing each other for decades, they still seem astonishingly ignorant of the way each other's political systems function and the premises underlying policy decisions. Moscow, for instance, appears unable to comprehend the U.S. Congress's fundamental independence. After meeting with Soviet leaders last week, Senator Howard Baker, the Tennessee Republican, concluded that "the Soviet Union does not fully understand the role of the Senate debate" in ratifying SALT. Adds one U.S. expert: "The Soviets see the treaty in strict political terms. They see it as yes or no. Carter can either deliver...
...always aware of material gently asserting itself: how the tobacco-brown hardboard, rubbed and glazed with a pow dery white or blue that clings to its sur face like fog to a headland or lichen to a rock, has the reality of paper as well as the metaphoric function of paint. The work is seldom fully abstract however. The predilection for landscape that runs through English art surfaced again in Nicholson soon after 1939, when he went to live in Cornwall. The mild light of the peninsula, sometimes as crystalline as the Aegean, and its rolling, antique contours of moorland...
...WHOLE FUNCTION of the artist in the world," Ruskin wrote, "is to be a seeing and feeling creature...the work of his life is to be twofold only: to see, to feel." The conviction advanced in the 1860s and '70s by the French Impressionists that seeing is equivalent to feeling has been present in photography throughout its history. But only recently, especially with the sudden increase of color work among serious photographers, has a painterly love and awe for pure optical effects impressively begun to displace the photographer's traditional documentary concerns...